Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Número de páginas: 512 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 28-09-2023
EAN: 9780192867513
ISBN: 978-0-19-286751-3
Precio (sin IVA): 133,72 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 139,07 €
This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book instead advocates a multiple pathways approach to Arabic language history. Arabic has multifarious sources: its relations to other Semitic languages, an old epigraphic and papyrological tradition, a vibrant and linguistically original classical Arabic linguistic tradition, and a widely dispersed array of contemporary spoken varieties.